Last Things: Essays on Ends and Endings (Aachen British and American Studies / Aachener Studien zur Anglistik und Amerikanistik, #19) (Aachen British And American Studies / Aachener Studien Zur A, #19)

Gavin Hopps (Editor), Stella Neumann (Editor), Sven Strasen (Editor), and Peter Wenzel (Editor)

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This multidisciplinary collection brings together scholars from the fields of literature, theology and linguistics who question and extend our taken-for-granted conceptions of The End. It focuses on the ways in which endings are formally signaled in literature, and sets these alongside parallel studies in journalism and film. However, it is also concerned with larger philosophical and historical notions of closure, impermanence, rupture and apocalypse as well as the possibilities of «posthumous» being. It gives examples from fairytales, Byron, Longfellow, Dillard, Barnes and South African writers.
  • ISBN13 9783631652466
  • Publish Date 19 March 2015 (first published 9 March 2015)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country CH
  • Imprint Peter Lang AG